Domestic Geek

This has got to be one of the stupidest ideas I've heard coming out of a legislator lately. This was the topic of discussion on The Sports Zoo on the drive home. Why the envy? Don't professional athletes pay enough of a percentage of their wages to taxes already? Why make visiting athletes pay even more? To fund computers in schools? What a joke. I'm sorry, but I'm one of those people that think education is funded more than enough. I've seen the waste. Does the dude (Rep. Peter Groff, D-Denver) who proposed this have some sort of Robin Hood complex? Did he want to be a professional athlete and couldn't cut it, so let's get back at them now? Was he bullied by athletes in school? One caller coined the proposed tax "taxation by occupation." If it gets approved, which group of high-paid professionals is next? I think taxes are too high as they are. I think athletes get paid too much money, but I'm not for overtaxing them to punish them. It's just stupid.